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Our reporters investigate every significant event in the tech world. We speak to companies, witness events from the ground, and test products so you can get essential first-hand insights on the latest news.

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Your robotaxi might be a narc

Waymo is watching you.

Rani Molla
A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

The industry is in a panic, but it’s been claiming to want legal guardrails for years — with few meaningful results.

Sean Hollister
Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

Major AI companies want to ‘pace the frontier’ — but their proposed solutions need real teeth.

Hayden Field
Sylvan Esso think you should splurge on good-quality yogurt

The band’s new, organic-sounding record Ow ∞ is out now

Terrence O'Brien
Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

An Anthropic researcher’s resignation letter went viral, and the company released details of four concerning cybersecurity incidents.

Hayden Field
Anime reaction YouTubers are at war with copyright enforcers

Content creators say their videos are fair use, but one controversial company begs to differ.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
AI power users claim Anthropic duped them with subscriptions, and they’re taking it to court

Subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan ($100-$200 per month) say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for.

Hayden Field
Apple says ‘Fold’ and competitors ask ‘How wide?’

The launch of its first foldable iPhone proves Apple still calls the shots.

Dominic Preston
Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy

If you haven’t had your fantasy football draft yet, better get on it.

Terrence O'Brien
Content creators drop the ball

Recent US Open shenanigans and YouTubers’ disastrous golf ad show a risky relationship between brands and influencers.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Robotaxis enter their villain era 

Road Rage is a new short film in production that casts a murderous autonomous car as the bad guy — and taps into everything people already fear about AI on the road.

Rani Molla
Instagram’s AI detection is a mess (again)

Meta is back to adding AI labels on original photos, while not tagging AI images it should.

Jess Weatherbed
OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

It emphasized stronger guardrails for GPT-6 Astra after the company’s models hacked Hugging Face.

Hayden Field
The robot butler dream doesn’t have legs

After years of living with home robots, I think we’re chasing the wrong machine.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Nvidia’s DLSS 5, explained

A show-and-tell with Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 neural rendering, launching this week.

Sean Hollister
Get ready for a really busy month of smartphones

Xiaomi, Apple, Huawei, and more are all launching flagship phones this month.

Dominic Preston
Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses

Cook’s 15-year tenure as Apple CEO was filled with ups and downs.

Emma Roth
Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango 

His latest book, The Nudge, tells the tale of a man who can’t seem to outrun a mysterious evil.

Terrence O'Brien
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions.

Hayden Field
Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback

As more robotaxis hit the road, the fight over the rules governing the technology is intensifying.

Rani Molla